"Oh pitter patter pitter patter goes the rhythm of the falling rain," the rather oddly misplaced song rung out among the clicks, and hums of the engineering gear support room as with each verse something seemed to come to life via energy or momentum. The most visible color in a particular section was a unusual gold-ish hue that surged here, and there as the voice halted its song before being followed by a rather sweaty Allo. Practically shining from the grease, and sweat from his current project hung rather randomly in the middle of the room against a pillar of poles holding up a few large metal rings. Which in turn held up a rather bulky appearing energy rifle rather gutted out with its armored pieces, and wires strung out upon the rings. If one was to really observe what he was doing it almost appeared like Allo was trying to build the rifle around another weapon, but what was hard to point out as the massive plethora of wires, and blue armor chunks barred most of the view.
"You know before everyone got all these fancy quirks people of regular skin, and flesh made legends of normal men," Allo randomly started to speak potentially to himself grabbing a pair of goggles before picking up a blowtorch, and going to town on whatever was inside the rings. Noticeable each time Allo seemed to touch something on the device the room would get brighter matching that gold-ish glow from earlier. Yet the closer you got the more someone would be drawn away from what Allo was working on to what was connected to the boy himself. Almost devouring his feet were wires that went up his legs, and were attached to some strange pads that were on his skin. This also made strange to the fact that all was way out of place wearing shorts while in a operation zone.
"One of my favorites that my mom use to tell me was about a man called John Henry who worked his life hammer to nail literally everyday. This guy apparently could lay down miles of rail road by himself, and was one of the best steel driving men to ever live. Till one day he was challenged by the industrial revolution... in particular a steam drill train that could nail down its own tracks ,and dig tunnels that part I am told differs upon the teller. Yet the story regardless was proven to have a merit of truth of such a man that did in fact win against a steam drill building a tunnel, and his name was John Henry," Allo chuckled clearly still impressed by such a tall tale that whatever he was building must have had some connection to it. Placing the blow torch down Allo pulled up a tool kit with some rather delicate looking instruments pulling some out as he tested something that made the room light up again. Once he was satisfied with the hue of light he cracked a rather big grin.
"Man, and machine. Though you can say man builds machine I love the fact that sometimes machines give man the most challenges, and competition. Heh, and hell who better to aid you then that which can drive you to the limit right. That's why to me gear whether it be simply made clothing or advanced machines is important. It what lets you push yourself to your true limits... well in my opinion. John Henry might disagree with me, and honestly that's why I like that particular legend. Its like I am being challenged to prove my opinions worth to the opposite of his... he worked against a machine, and well I want to work besides it... but listen to me prattle on,"Allo chuckled as he continued to mess with his own weapon project. Pausing finally at the end of his story the teen placed all his tools back onto the toolbox set before lifting it into a high up shelf. Once he ruffled his hair a bit to let the air condition cool him down he suddenly leaned backwards all the way to have himself hanging from the rings upside down to meet eye to eye with the one he had been speaking to.
"So how can I serve you today Takagi?"
"...Eh?"
Standing there with folded arms, Takagi stared at Allo as she had upon entering the room. She was in her casual clothes now, wearing a short-sleeved purple blouse, white skirt that reached to about her knees with a black belt, pantyhose and white flat slip-on shoes.
She had entered the room shortly before her peer had began his story, looking for aid to advance her quirk or her application of it.
It had already been a while since she began at U.A. and yet she had not achieved much in the way of evolving her quirk. Much of her training by Titan had been focused on control, and as could be seen by her demonstration on the first day that she was near the top when it came to that. Yet, she needed more than just control. She would need to expand her repertoire beyond that of simply using her hair to strike or shield. Her nails offered an extra, albeit unnecessary when compared to her hair, bit of offensiveness. And yet, she still had not succeeded in manipulating the properties of her skin, the act still proving far too painful for her to ignore.
In the way of aids, Allo was an obvious choice. He held quite the interest in the quirks of others and seemed just as excitable in regards to the potential of the quirks as the owners of said abilities. In many ways, he conducted himself as a researcher or tinkerer. Thus, it stood to reason that he might prove most effective at helping her improve.
However, upon finding him in his little lab, he appeared in the middle of tinkering with something. Takagi wasn't going to pretend to be very technologically-inclined, however considering he was covered in mechanical grease and sweat, she surmised it was best not to interrupt him.
When he began to speak a story, she continued simply watching him as he worked. She couldn't understand any of what he was doing, but it wasn't so boring to watch. It wasn't until he greeted her directly did Takagi learn just how aware Allo was of his surroundings.
Caught off guard by the sudden address, and all too aware at how long she had been staring, Takagi averted her gaze with a slight huff.
"...I was hoping you would be willing to aid me with my quirk," Takagi stated.
"Assuming you aren't too busy that is...," Glancing off to the side, Takagi's demeanor seemed rather pouty as she clarified the purpose of her visit.
"I'm fine in the way of control, but I want to expand its applications... and I still can't alter my skin. I just don't want to fall behind." Upon Takagi finishing her request what could only be considered as the widest of grins easily formulated on Allo's face as he began to remove the pads on his legs which in turn started to kill the light on the machinery around him. Especially whatever was in the rings. Once he was finished unplugging he lifted himself back up before with a single pull up freed his legs, and dropped down right next to Takagi with a spring in his step.
"So you got your offensive nature down, and now want to kickstart your defensive nature. Heh... alright well lets get started I just need to grab a simple piece of restraining gear," Allo spoke up excited before completely halting as he say a mirror immediately reminded how he looked, and that he was covered in.
"Oh... ya heh. How about you give me a minute there is a shower in here that I am going to go use," the teen chuckled grabbing a spar pair of gym closes he had brought running to the back out of sight as the burst of streaming water could be heard. At first everything was silent, but without warning Allo's voice sprung out to Takagi.
"So since you rely heavily on your hair your body, and mind have probably never had any reason to form a chemical reaction to truly harden your skin," Allo explained before Takagi would see his dirty clothing flying out in a impressive shot into a clothing basket just outside the shower doors.
"So what we need to do is cause your body stress in a situation where your hair can't counter, or hit. Basically I am going to restrain your hair in a way. Then I am going to fight you in a unfair manner,"he yelled out nonchalantly as if the fact he said he was going to try, and beat the snot out of her meant nothing.
"If were lucky we may be able to create the very type of moment your body needs to kick into high gear, and unlock the missing piece that will allow you access to hardening your skin on command," He continued to explain as the shower water went silent with a bit of steam rising out of the door way as Takagi would be able to hear the ruffling of clothes being put on.
"Once we got the capability down then we can start stress testing it, and of course heightening it, and well then if there are way to help it I can start helping you make suit design changes to help it out," Allo sung as he stepped out his body cleaned up shiny, and new as he wore his gym uniform. As he walked towards his classmate he grabbed a strange bungie wired device with small metal clamps.
"So did you want to attempt this today or did you have plans with someone else tonight," he joked. As Allo hopped down and reiterated her request, Takagi nodded looking back at him.
"More or less, though if I could manipulate the keratin in my skin, it would really boost my offense as well as my defense," Takagi affirmed.
"Titan does something similar; hardening his body for protection but also to hit harder." Perhaps that was part of the reason Takagi yearned to be able to use her quirk in that manner. Titan was a rather large inspiration to her, and this was one way both their quirks overlapped. However, while he had acquired the ability to form a protective "armor" before adapting his quirk to other uses, she had yet to even achieve that.
Blinking a few moments, Takagi had almost failed to hear the last part of his sentence.
"...Restraining gear...?" This worried her somewhat, not that she thought Allo would do anything bad. However "restraining" didn't sound good no matter how you put it.
As he excused himself to go clean up, Takagi once again eyed him up in down. Currently he was rather greasy and scuffed up, as was evident across his body and face.
"Go clean up then, then you can tell me what these restraints of yours are." Averting her gaze once again and leaning against—something she knew naught of, Takagi watched as he ran out of sight, but jumped slightly when he began speaking from the shower.
It was strange, but he made a good point. Not that Takagi would know if it wasn't. Up to date she hadn't been put in a position that required her to adjust the keratin in her skin. Many would assume that training under Titan that the regimen would be rather harsh, however he was always more likely to kick you in the pride than the gut if you messed up.
Thinking on that, Takagi was once again startled by the sudden stream of clothing flying outside the room. However, just as she looked to see the clothes tossed out, once again she turned her head to look in the opposite direction, as if looking away would somehow offer further privacy than the wall already afforded.
As Allo continued speaking, his plan became more clear. His idea was that by pushing her body passed its limits, she would adapt and modify her skin. However, there was one worry that presented itself. Sure he could restrain her hair, maybe. However there was also the fact of her nails, and Takagi wasn't sure she trusted herself to create a new means of protecting herself rather than instinctively lashing out under that stress.
Bringing the back of her hand up, Takagi examined her nails, and again jumped with a slight blush when Allo exited the shower. She wasn't quite sure the source of her discomfort, it wasn't as if he was naked or showering in front of her, yet it was still weird somehow. Perhaps it was due to how nonchalant Allo was about everything. Then again, maybe she was just the weird one.
Huffing, Takagi folded her arms once again.
"No, I am without a date today," She replied in turn to his joke.
"Let's give a shot but..." Pausing a moment, she was still unsure. "Just... I don't know what you mean by fight unfairly, but don't take any chances. I wouldn't like to hurt you on accident, unless your restraint gear can also stop this." Holding up her arm, as if to finish her sentence her nails suddenly sharpened and extended to the length of a small shiv.
"Wait are you somehow related to the Pro Hero Titan," Allo asked with a raised eyebrow mainly because she seemed to be talking more from a personal experience then a fan experience. Allo awaited a answer, but properly moved on with the conversation as Takagi raised her concerns.
"Nothing evil mind you, but this actually gives me a chance to deal with unique skilled Quirks I am more about capturing a villain then the other option," Allo explained as he grabbed a rather well squared metal back one among quite a few. There was even one over by the project he had been working on albeit a bit bigger then the one he was holding onto now. Seemed these backpacks revolved around Allo's hero costume as they were a equal aquamarine blue.
"Heh, don't feel bad neither am I guess it makes sense to make some preparations with you tonight then," he joked lightly as he calmly listened to her concerns about hurting him as she revealed a skill she hadn't used during the testing. Her nails on command became a set of small knives upon her hand clearly a hazardous sharpness like her hair he wagered when used with force. Yet though at first he ogled them he also started to chuckle a bit as he took her hand softly leading her index finger to touch the skin of his forearm as he smiled.
"If my only capability was to power things I would have a hell of a hardship with this business. Luckly for me," he smiled devilishly, and without warning aggressively pressed his hand against the nail in a curved movement in a way that would slice a mans hand wide open. Yet instead of a pure bloody mess Takagi's nails would be met with a unexpected resistance as sparks flied between her nails and his skin. Just like her he hadn't shown all of his quirk's asset's.
"Ironically my quirk actually shares a familiarity with yours my skin is an organic metal that can resist blades to a certain extent of force mind you, blunt attacks, and a few elemental resistances. Along with a rather nasty surprise if anyone ever tries to zap me with a energy/electricity quirk," Allo explain though oddly mumbling that last part in a way that seemed he wasn't a fan of that last bit. Any who with that display to hopefully sway over Takagi's concerns Allo seemed to mull over something until he smiled a different tune from what he had originally planned.
"So instead of what I just said, and with that particular showcase on both are parts I have a better way of getting your quirk to do what you need it to. Were going to fight legitimately no restraints at both our full capacities. Simply put I cant have you hold back, and honestly given my respect for all of you I refuse to hold back against any of you," he said pumped for this match that was about to happen. Within that hype when he had balled his fists he realized he was still holding onto Takagi's hand for all that time.
"Oh sorry about that I sometimes get to excited I guess," he laughed as he let go of her hand nonchalantly thinking nothing of it as he switched backpacks before rejoining her.
"Well then shall we take this moonlite stroll tonight?"
"No, not by blood anyway. He did adopt me, though," Takagi explained, leaving out details on the circumstances of that adoption.
"He's raised me since I was six or so." To his explanation regarding the intentions of his restraints, Takagi let out a small chuckle.
"Of course, only the purest of intentions," Takagi joked. However her bemused expression quickly turned to confusion as Allo took her hand and led it to his arm. While she listened to him speak, Takagi was obviously far more concerned with what her peer was doing with her hand, almost staring at the events as if it were a snake with a subtle tinge of red to her cheeks. However, once he slammed his arm forward into her claws, that color in her face was lost instantly as her eyes widened in shock.Seeing the nails scrape against his skin with a couple sparks, Takagi let out a sigh of relief, and subsequently looked at Allo with a light scowl.
"You couldn't have clarified that before giving me a heart attack?" Takagi inquired, not very entertained by his show-and-tell.
"So you think a full-fought battle will help me?" Takagi mulled over Allo's suggestion. It might work. Certainly she had never fought anyone at her full, not here anyway. Even if they were strong, she had no reason to fight them with an intent to do harm. Thus far Titan was the only one whose quirk was developed enough to where she didn't have to worry. Perhaps with Allo, he could as well handle it.
"Eh?" Takagi looked down to see that her hand was indeed still being held. Gaining a slight red hue once again, she took her hand in her own once it was released, the long claws shrinking back to their original size and shape. Whether it was Takagi's own misunderstanding paired with recent actions, or Allo's, his next sentence caused the hue to redden even more.
"Wha-" Takagi nearly choked before folding her arms with a huff.
"A-Ah... right. Of course... Let's go."
"Alright I got the perfect place in mind," Allo grinned as he gave his blushing classmate a thumbs up leading her out to one of the combat training ground buildings to avoid their classmates trying to get involved, and to hopefully not bring the ire of the teachers immediately upon them. The field chosen was a simple one no terrain obstructions, and no place to hide. Just two students getting ready to beat the snot out of each other.
"Alright no rules, and no handicaps," Allo chimed as he strapped his backpack on before pulling out what appeared to be two rather advanced looking pistols. With wires attached to the backpack, and a oddly strange orb like item attached at the bottom where one would expect a gun magazine they appeared rather foreign.
"If you want to get nasty by all means show me what you got," Allo smiled devilishly as he pointed only one gun at her with the other simply used to wave her to come at him as he took a straight laced gunner stance.
Following him, Takagi frowned slightly, her cheeks still somewhat flushed red. Originally she simply approached Allo as a way of work-shopping how she could improve. However, now she was wondering if Allo understood how his words could be misconstrued.
As they reached their destination, Takagi glanced around with a hand on her hip. It was simple, but open and nonrestrictive. There were also no spectators not potential interferences.
As Allo spoke, Takagi released a haughty hum.
"Hah... Are you still sure about this?" Takagi questioned him.
However, it seemed as though he was, with strange gear in tow. Thus, Takagi readied herself, slightly lowering her body as one leg spaced itself forward and to the side, forming an invisible diagonal line between both feet. Arms straight and extended to the side, Takagi's expression appeared determined and focused.
This time, at Allo's extremely ill-prepared phrasing, Takagi did not seem extremely affected.
"...I'm afraid it'll take more than the first date for me to go that far," Takagi stated, matching Allo's vaguely-worded statements. Albeit Takagi's were worded that way intentionally.
Dashing forward, Takagi kept her arms spaced out while strands of her hair began to stiffen and bend, mimicking small lances pointed forward over her head and on both sides of her aligned at the shoulders. As Takagi would encroach, all three "lances" thrusted forward while she grew her nails on her right hand, entrenching her stance and slashing upwards with a step forward.
"Heh," Allo chuckled as he mad dashed towards her in response sending two laser blasts a mere few inches from her creating a rough dust uproar as the three hair lances went forward meeting no target. Following the sound of brushed rocks as the rough sounding gravelly tumbled revealed Allo had in fact slide right under her feet to avoid all four attacks. As quick as he had dodged his counter attack was soon in full bloom as he twisted mid dodge to trip up Takagi. Pushing as hard as he could with his hands against the ground he pushed up to deliver a upper double screw kick into her side before adding in a dual blast to recreate distance. Yet, unfortunately Takagi had been just as responsive, and ready as one the final kicks of his combo he felt himself get uplifted, and literally thrown into the air as her hair had snaked onto his left leg.
"OH GEEZ," Allo responded in laughter as he pulled his captured leg towards his stomach to latch roughly onto the hair to make sure he wasn't the only one about to go for a wild mid air ride. As her sparring partner slid beneath her legs, Takagi let out a light grown and instinctively pushed down on the skirt of her uniform. In hindsight, she perhaps shouldn't have worn a skirt, but in her defense it wasn't as if she came here predicting a fight. Feeling her legs being kicked from under her, her hair automatically moved to catch her, striking the ground and entrenching within it. However, just as she recovered, Takagi felt a kick in her side, knocking her back as her entrenched strands tore the ground. Yet just as she was kicked, Takagi managed to wrap some of her hair around her leg, allowing her to pull him into the air.
Takagi saw as Allo grasped his leg, attempting to gain some measure of control, however the strands that were struck into the ground acted as roots, holding her steady and in place while he was lifted in the air.
"I do hope you don't make a habit of trying to look up people's skirts in a fight...!"Takagi taunted, whipping her hair up before trying to bring it down and slam Allo to the ground. Before Takagi could slam down her captured prey she would have little chance to notice not bonding his hands had been a massive mistake mid attack for as Allo came down Takagi was quickly over taken with a laser barrage that forced her to let go mid swing. Due to the counter offensive Allo still came down with aggressive force causing quite the small rumble in the building.
"You don't seem like the type to use assassin type weapons," Allo chuckled mid groan clearly misunderstanding his classmates message, or its meaning as he in fact had done no such thing. What would more then likely give Takagi a confused face gave Allo all the time he needed to get up, and rush tackle her as he flung something behind her back. As something loudly clanged Takagi would feel her hair suddenly tighten together without her command. As the tackle turned body slammed Allo quickly rolled away giving Takagi a moment to realize her hair had indeed been restricted by a smaller device then the one he had shown her in the lab. He had tricked her, but with reason he needed her to panic. Allo's gun cords in the midst of the assault had been ripped not shocking given the material used for this particular pack.
"Note to self prototype 12 is useless in actual combat... need to improve fiber, and cord material," he spoke in a mumble realizing Takagi's hair had indeed at some point gotten the better of him trying to cut off the power supply.
"Though I am by no means out," he grinned flipping a small level that caused the ball at the ends of both guns to light up in that usual golden hue. It wouldn't be hard for Takagi to realize they were back on line especially as soon as he rushed her again taking concentrated shots at her. Moving her hair to focus on defense, the strands extended outward retracted to form a protective barrier around herself, similarly to how she bested her trial on the first day. However, once more Allo said something Takagi understood naught of.
"...What does that even mean!" Takagi replied in slight frustration, not at all understanding the reference. Soon after, Allo rushed her once more. In response, her hair propped and pointed itself forward in several positions as when the fight first began, however suddenly Takagi found her hair to be unusable. Furthermore, before she could process what had occurred, Allo had tackled her before backing away.
"Oh, what now...?!" Takagi growled, reaching back to grab at her hair. It was that same device from earlier from Allo's first plan. Looking to Allo, those things that resembled guns began firing at her. Slightly panicked, Takagi grew her nails once again, stumbling to evade some and attempting to slash at those she couldn't. It wasn't as if she could do nothing without her quirk, she had some semblance of close-quarters-combat; she was raised by Titan after all. However, there was little she could do defensive-wise against guns. Try as she might have, some of the blasts got through her defenses, either striking her directly or knocking her back as she batted the blasts away.
"Egh... Your toys... are extremely...aggravating!"
"Alright final stretch," Allo whispered to himself as he held down both triggers as the pistol lasers started to charge. She was mad, confused, and in a panic as he had hoped in one single fluid moment of being tricked. Now was the part that was going to be the roughest. That being even without a harden skin ability Takagi did in fact hit hard, and while her best weapons for delivering the pain were restricted at the moment did not mean she still couldn't bring the hurt. Her level of strength was still above human, and while Allo could take a thrashing, or keep distance with his long range tools it did no good for what Takagi wanted to achieve.
"Going to have to go the brawler route this time," Allo grinned as he charged wildly at the hellfire woman that was currently Takagi. First he needed to get her over the edge so with that said. With one blaster at the read he let loose a way bigger shot that tore the barrel of the pistol apart Allo once again tore apart the terrain to blind Takagi. While using the same strategy twice seemed stupid that was the very reason he did it. It would not only convey that Takagi would get even more disoriented, but she would probably feel like he thought she would fall for it twice. If that didn't enrage, or ruffle her skin then well things were about to get very physical. The second pistol now the only pistol was readied as Allo slide to the left of the torrent of dust as he made is position very obvious... come on rush me. As the barrage kept coming, suddenly Allo changed strategies, supercharging the weapon to tear up the terrain in front of her. Holding an arm up to shield her from the dirt and small debris, it wasn't long before the ground erupted again. Growling, this was beginning to get tiresome. Sure she had asked for Allo's help but Takagi had never anticipated the young tinkerer would be this irritating to fight with all his little tools. Charging forward, it was about all Takagi could do. Whether Allo wanted her to or to sit at a range, she wasn't going to achieve anything by sitting back and playing defensive with a majority of her versatility eliminated. Holding her left arm forward and perpendicular to her body, the limb was to act as a brace and shield, ready to claw at anything Allo threw at her during her charge while her right hand stood pointed and forward, ready to stab and pierce.
"GOTCHA," Allo yelled with a burst with adrenaline kicking in as he threw the shot he had charged blasting another torrent of derbis from the ground not to far from them as he threw away the now useless gun as he created a space of chaos. Twisting past Takagi's piercer strike as he in response delivered an elbow to her stomach before grabbing her attacking arm to throw her over his back. Adding a volatile spin mid air to deliver a round house kick that got blocked by Takagi's other hand Allo quickly found himself face to face with a enraged Takagi. The game had changed now it was close quarters all the way. As he landed with his other leg he pushed off getting uprooted for a moment as she once again slashed forward with her claws slashing his shirt wide open against his metallic skin.
"TOO SLOW," Allo shouted delivered a downward haymaker to her noggin that only all to well sparked the fuel of rage Takagi had build up. He quickly felt a rather hefty gut punch as he was forced backwards as she came at him with a super man jump punch getting him good in the fac. Surprisingly taking it full force standing his ground as his brain clearly messaged the pain from such a foolish choice. With feet firm though he was able to force the hand away with his own as he delivered a punch equal to hers square in the nose..., and for one brief moment Allo grinned wildly.. just briefly he a felt a tinge of metal before both Takagi, and himself started to go wild with the punches in place. Chest, face, ribs, shoulders no place face nor torso was safe as both student literally beat the hell out of each other like two wild animals neither willing to budge. As the two bouted, Takagi felt pain envelope her body with each strike. While Allo's skin acted as protection, her own was not quite at that level. On top of that, he was physically stronger than she was and wasn't too inexperienced with melee combat either.
"...Okay... you can be irritating even without your toys..."
"You're quite the heavy hitter yourself my Valkyrian war maiden," Allo rounded off in a competitive manner only trying to further Takagi's concentration on him, not realizing it came off a bit more complimentary and flirty than anything else. Yet as the two took only a few second to get their words out they were followed by two aggressively dead set glares. Neither party wanted to lose now, and to be fair Allo had gone in with the mindset to only go as far as needed, but now his blood was boiling to see this match to the end.
Takagi herself only wanting to get idea's, maybe improve her control, however was now more focused with finishing the fight, irritated with the mechanical traps and tools and her competitive streak coming out. Learning to harden the keratin in her skin was outside her thoughts now.
Both students attacked once again, Allo throwing a left-sided hay-maker out while keeping his right arm to guard against Takagi's clawed strikes. Meanwhile, Takagi guarded with her right forearm to intercept Allo's punch. Both felt the force of the attacks, particularly Takagi as the force pushed her back. Allo reared another strike, and then another, Takagi forced onto the defensive.
A strange feeling began to envelope her arms, a feeling of numbness as the strikes continued. Growling, Takagi began striking back once again with stabs and slashes, forgoing defense to go on the offensive.
I should just stop it here... but I really want to see this through! Allo's mind screamed as yet again that intense feeling of bodily force connected, and sparks burst as the two clashed. Yet when the force split them up again before they could set aback, both steadied themselves, planting a foot firmly on the ground, locking them in place as the two threw out a final punch, striking each other in the head, resulting in the two stumbling back and falling to the ground.
"...Ow... that... might have been overkill," Allo groaned as he was quickly met with a brutal headache as the adrenaline died, and his breath started to slow down.
Huffing as she lay there, Takagi felt her own onset of pain and aches, though the strange feeling of numbness in her arms had left just as quickly as it came.
"...Oh come now, you're a boy with resistant skin. You're fine..." Takagi remarked, apparently still capable of teasing and jabbing people while fatigued.
Sitting up, Takagi held her head, but quickly noticed the strange condition her forearms were in. They weren't particularly damaged, albeit for some obvious bruising and aches that would ensue. Rather, some of the skin at the points of impact was peeling, or cracking rather.
"...Well, it kind of worked..." Takagi still couldn't harden the keratin in her skin on command, but she took this as fact that it was possible without intensive pain. That, or perhaps she didn't notice due to the adrenaline. "A step in the right direction I suppose... Now... how do I get this thing out of my hair?"
"Just cause I have Iron skin doesn't mean I don't feel anything. Just means I feel it less then you in force," he laughed in response as he to go up they energy was definitely gone, but thankfully they hadn't overspent themselves, or gone to insane.
"Sure you can drop a car on me, and I'll be fine. Yet get hit enough times, and everyone starts to feel pain eventually," he pointed out in a chuckle as he came over to her pleased to hear her resulting notion of her skin. Seemed they had gotten a small fruit of their labor. Helping her up with a free hand Allo immediately got behind her, and started to unlock the mechanism on her hair. With a rough pull the device gave way finally freeing Takagi's hair.
"Lucky we decided to this with a off day tomorrow... or this would have sucked the next day," he smiled as he rolled his shoulders. Their was definitely going to be some bruising Takagi had in fact used him like a ragdoll part way in. Though it was nice to know mid combat how well his quirk held up defense wise as the only parts that hurt were where they had repeatedly punched the hell out of each other when her skin when into iron mode temporarily.
"Heh, I think we both need to work out a little more in the strength department. If you ever need a lifting partner let me know," Allo smiled as he threw the device to her before collecting his own stuff. In a few minutes the cleaner bots would be out, and they definitely needed to be gone by then.
A smile coming to Takagi's face, maneuvering her hair as if stretching tired limbs. Pushing herself up, she let out a small laugh.
"I may take you up on that offer, though we should probably leave. This sort of thing isn't exactly smiled upon," Takagi suggested, catching the device. "Shall we?"
Takagi Sunemizuki
I got a little held up drafting your first Science Exam of the school year. It's gonna be a doozy 
so make sure to study the appropriate chapters. BUT! I arranged ample transportation. You are in good hands!'
